We are thrilled to announce the winner of the latest Mini 2-Day Poem Contest!
Jade Liu is the winner with her poem “What We Bear,” written using the words “Pith,” “Ensorcelled,” and “Peristeronic.” You can read the poem below!
Congrats to Jade and thank you to everyone who participated! We hope you had fun, and that you feel proud of the poems you wrote using some of our favourite words from previous 2-Day Contests.
If you missed the game, don’t fret! The 2-Day Poem Contest is taking place April 20-21. Check out #2DayContest2024 to follow along!
WHAT WE BEAR
The morning I learn papaya is a natural abortive
I take the one marinating on my kitchen counter
for a walk. We slip through the veil of resuscitating trees,
agile past nuclear families that crowd for cheek-to-cheek photos
around bushes of newly budded blooms. My papaya and I
search for our home among the grass, which at this point
is more peristeronic fertilizer than green, remnants
of lives before and before. On them, I sit. Dig my spoon
into the tender body of my friend, scrape to the pith,
pour pink flesh into my mouth. As voices chatter over my head
I imagine the mouthful falling inside me. I imagine the enzymes
tingling, doing some thing of science that has ensorcelled and made lunatics
of men for centuries. It is sweet.
And when I finish the fruit,
my lips and fingers sticky with juice,
I drop two pearl-black seeds into dirt
not warm, not rich enough to sustain their hope.
In this earth, I bury them anyway.